All right, let's do it. Father, we honor you.
We honor you in everything we do. We get to do
this. And that's the truth. We thank you, Lord,
that you have ordered our steps and you delight
in the very details of our lives. Every detail,
down to the most minute thing. You're there and
you care. Thank you for that. I pray today for
our listeners, Adam and I together. We join our
hearts together, our faith together. For those
who are listening, Father, that they would be
built up, encouraged, challenged, but also hungry
for more. Lord, our heart is that all of us will
be hungry for you. We give this to you in Jesus'
name. Amen. Amen. It's Wednesday, November 5th,
2025. We get to do this. This is episode number
nine. Yo, yo, brother. Hello. Man, that jingle
is really getting in my head. You know what's
funny is that I posted our share link on X. That's
the only social media I still have. And I really
only post shows. And then I look at the inbox,
because that's where people tag something. I
don't really go through the timeline. And some
guy, like, I had to forgive him right away. It
was not easy. Come on, brother. Radical forgiveness.
You know, that song, that sounds like really
bad worship music before Hillsong was around.
I'm like, really? Is that really? And by the
way, of all the things you could say about our
show, is that all you have to say? Wow. This
is what I thought. I didn't. I think all my reply
was, I think I just heard Jeff Smith's heartbreak,
but otherwise, thank you very much for your response.
I love it, man. Everybody's a critic. Anybody
with a keyboard's a critic. Entitlement, autopilot.
But we used to go to the, you know, we'd huddle
around a church or the bar or at the sports club
and the water on the water cooler, and we'd talk
amongst ourselves. Which I woke this morning
to nothing but hair on fire, pearl clutching,
the Muslim socialists have taken over. It's the
end of America. We're all going to die. I was
praying for that one, brother. I was praying.
It seems such an obvious... First of all, I know
through some hands -on, boots -on -the -ground,
that this is just like AOC, and they've done
many more. I'm pretty sure it's just the DSA,
the Democrat Socialists of America, which really
doesn't have a party, you know, this is a group.
And they recruit actors. I mean, Mom Donnie literally
is a theater kid. Wow, didn't know that. Oh yeah,
literally. I'm not surprised though. No, and
he's really good. He's charismatic, he's friendly
and fun. Everything you want in a leader who's
going to give you free stuff. Exactly. First
of all, I was very disappointed in myself because
I fell down on the job so badly this week. We
had voting yesterday and we had... Right. and
we had 17 mainly tax -related bills. Amendments,
yeah. Yeah, amendments. 17 amendments. And I
was driving in the car and I was listening to
Bridge Church Radio, which is all the podcast.
It's in the Godcast rap. Give it a shot. And
of course, Matt Long pops up. And with this Bridge
Church Radio, it's just podcasts, all the new
episodes play. Oh right, you're doing the continuous
play. Yeah. And so he kind of dropped in the
middle and he's talking about it. You know, Matt
Long is a guy I would trust to give me the right
things, you know, the insight, because a lot
of these amendments are double negatives, tricky
language. You think you're voting against something,
but you're really voting for it to be something.
So I really... Not intentional at all. No, I
really appreciate it. And then I realized that
I did not know what district I'm in. I really
don't. And I'm like, okay, so I do a... An AI
actually, I asked Grok in expert mode and it
took about five minutes as well. Looks like you're
in district three. So where can I vote for district
three? That's right over here by the airport.
And it turns out the district three and district
10, how much sense does that make? That they
are both very near each other. So you go into
the same building. I go into the district three.
Oh no, your driver's license says you're district
10. Okay, so thanks AI. I'm glad. And then how
does it even work that we have District 3 and
10 in the same building? I don't understand any
of this. I can hear Matt Long groaning because
he can explain it. And now, so I was prepared
and I knew the things I wanted to vote yes on
and wanted to vote no on. Turnout, of course,
actually was a little higher than they expected.
I saw. But it's still, it's a very small amount.
And I put some blame on myself because where
were the promos on Hello Fred telling people
to go vote? I know. Telling people to listen
to Matt Long show. I agree. I dropped the ball.
We dropped the ball. Yeah, I feel bad about that.
Like, wow, I cannot believe that we missed that.
This is the whole point. That hit me this morning
when I got up and I didn't even look, but Annette
did. So she's my news source now. I said, She
said, I can't believe this. She said, all 17
passed. I said, you know why? Because nobody
read them. People went out and voted straight
up. So much easier is to click yes on every one
of them to actually dive in. We used, I like
Texas Scorecard. I like those guys. Yeah, there's
a couple of good services like that. They're
solid. And so I went on Texas Scorecard and that's
where I pulled. I think the Tea Party used that
one as well. Likely. And so I voted according
to that. I actually copied it off, Annette and
I did. And took it with you. We took it with
us. Somebody asked me, can you do that? I said,
You're the voter. Hello. Yes, you can. Yes, you
can. Yeah, absolutely. We're voting for things
that are very complicated and convoluted. But
I only saw people our age and older, brother.
I didn't see any young people. And I sat in the
parking lot for a little bit just to see what
was coming in. And, you know, older people, older
than us for sure. Although maybe we just look
good for our age. I don't know. There it is.
Thank you. But I was just like, what are we doing?
screwed it up. I feel really, really dumb about
this because it was staring me in the face. Okay.
Let's not beat ourselves up about it. All right.
All right. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm
done. Course correction. We will do a better
job as things are coming up of relaying to our
listeners, get out and vote. But here, here's
a resource. Yeah. Go check this out. Listen to
this guy. I felt like that. I felt like on Sunday
I dropped the ball because we had a guest speaker.
Yeah. So my mind was in a different place. Yes.
And it was like, you didn't even mention the
election. I'm like, oh. So you had the same idea.
I really did. I felt terrible about it. Well,
this brings me to our guest speaker because Dr.
Rick Scarborough and his lovely wife, Tommy,
they came and they and he spoke at two services.
I actually pulled two clips, one relevant to
our conversation right now. But the first clip
I want to play is just and we already discussed
going outside of our rules. We discussed this
briefly. just because we both were in so awe
of it. We both have been speaking publicly 40
years each, give or take. You've been speaking
publicly in front of actual people, which I find
incredibly daunting, and I'm humbled by how good
you are at that. I speak cowardly behind a microphone
in a darkened room. Not cowardly, brother. we
understand public speaking and we understand
live public speaking and Dr. Rick Scarborough
gave us a Masterclass in what to do when something
that happens all the time. It happens to you.
It happens to me You lose your train of thought
you try to pretend you're doing Trump's weave
No, you just don't know where you're at and what
he did was not not only did it blow me away I
sat in awe in the front row going like Oh, wow.
Thank you for this lesson because I'm going to
do this too. I don't care where it happens to
me. Listen to this. In fact, one of his pupils
and a man who greatly enjoyed his work was a
pastor who was also the only pastor who signed
the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon.
Lex Rex, among other things, stated that... Well,
I've got off track here, forgive me. Father,
I pray that you will calm my spirit, enable me
to preach with fluence, and also Lord, stay on
track as we seek to provide biblical evidence,
very real historical evidence that this country
was founded on the Bible and by people who are
people of the Bible. And I thank you Lord for
Samuel Rutherford and his disciple who also became
the first president of what was then called New
Jersey College, but later become known as Princeton.
Help me, Lord, to share these truths and move
on to the more important things that follow.
But beloved, here's the point. Boom. Our country
was founded by men who loved God with all their
heart. That was, I mean, yes. I tear up listening
to that. Yeah, amazing. partly, initially, the
pain of it because we've all been there. We call
it brain freeze or brain fart, if we're being
honest. And everything's going through your mind
like, oh crap, you see people in the audience
looking at you. The tension builds in that silence.
That's the silence that screams, right? Dead
air on a radio, dead air in a church, you know,
in the middle of a message. Some of it's good.
I love silence. For effect, it can be powerful.
But when it's unintentional, it's heartbreaking.
And yet, He pivoted and just went right to the
source. Because he knew why he was there. And
he's like, God, Lord, help me. And he's literally,
I'm here, you know, to help these people understand
what our country was built on. And all of a sudden,
you can just hear like the Holy Spirit went,
and he had it. Kicks into another gear. Literally,
I have goosebumps right now. Thank you for playing
that. I shared that with our staff. I said, one
of the most poignant moments for me was when
Dr. Rick had a freeze moment. They at first were
like, that was powerful for you. I said, but
what he did, and they got it. You could see it
landing on all the team. They were like, oh,
he prayed. He prayed. A couple of them were out.
They were doing other things in the building.
They were like, that was amazing. They'd already
forgot about it because it was Tuesday and we're
moving on. But I brought them all back to that
moment because he gave, use the words, a master
class in what to do when you stumble over your
own thoughts. It happens to us all. It didn't
matter. And it reminded me of more like when
I can't find my glasses, when I can't find my
car keys, just take a moment. and pray. And man,
it works. I have to say time and time again,
like, thank you. Hey, I got here with the car,
so I must have found the keys. It happened again.
And just praying in the moment is something that
I think is easy to forget to do. Like Tina almost
got hit by a truck this morning on her walk.
And by the way, every single morning when she
goes out, I say, be careful. And I say a quick
prayer for her. to be, because it's not her,
it's the other people who are sleepy. And, you
know, the guy just didn't see her. She came around
the corner. She was on the crosswalk. And right,
she texted me like, oh, let's get hit by a truck.
And right away I'm like, thank you, Lord. Thank
you. Thank you for having your angels there protecting
her. Just, and I'm just getting in the habit
of doing this. I got an active prayer life. A
lot of people emailing me too, like, can you
pray for this? Can you pray for me? Here's what's
going on. I mean, I don't have to tell you. You've
been doing this for over 40 years. So getting
back to Dr. Rick and the reason, and this was
kind of his entire message. And we've talked
about it and it was so good. And there's some
things he brought up, which I think we just expand
a little bit on so people in our church know
what's going on. And it was so, Salient what
he's saying here, particularly in light of the
hair on fire. Oh, no a socialist got in, you
know Muslim and by the way, this is the new talking
point be on the lookout for it Muslims are taking
over America. Well a They're not be what are
you doing about it? You know, what are you doing
about it? And and that's the point. That's really
what dr. Rick He's up in his 75? 75. He's been
doing this for a long time. And he gave, in a
minute 30, just gave a quick overview of what
he's talking about, what is happening here in
our own bridge church and around the country.
And he made kind of an altar call for it, which
was just all beautiful, all in one go. Here it
is. When John Thune was elected, our ministry
mobilized a thousand pastors in South Dakota.
We were seeing results everywhere we went. We
never lost a race, and I never endorsed a candidate.
All I did was call the pastors, look at these
men's records, and you tell your people which
one to vote for. We are now freer than we've
ever been. We can now endorse candidates. We
always could. I always did. But the government
doesn't have the right to frighten us any longer,
because finally, the law's been passed rectifying
the Johnson Amendment, which should have never
been enacted. And that's another story. Beloved,
listen carefully. God has raised your pastor
up to be one of the leaders of this effort to
mobilize 25 ,000 churches by 2028. That's the
guy with the hook. He's going to jerk me off.
So Cass, our keyboard player, comes up, he always
comes up around 10, 15, and just that ad lib
was just so beautiful. I'll play it again and
we'll continue. That's the guy with the hook.
That's the best. Do you realize today we have
a chance to change America if Jesus carries?
And if you don't, that's going to be better.
I mean, folks, listen, we can't lose this thing.
Let's be about the business of changing our culture.
God's calling somebody to run for city council,
somebody to run for school board. Quit cursing
the doctors. Change it. Turn the light on. Look
at the light. Folks, I didn't have time to go
into Isaiah chapter 3. In Isaiah chapter 3, you
see what happens when a country turns its back
on God. You know what happens in Isaiah chapter
5? God asked a couple of questions. He said,
I was expecting you to blossom and be a fertile
land, but instead I see thorns and thistles.
And that's exactly what I'm seeing now. Thorns
and thistles. That's all we see, right? Yeah.
We're in revival. What happened to people cheering
what God is doing because they've gotten distracted
and pulled back down the rabbit hole? And I think
people enjoy being there. There's something about
being spun up that's a total dopamine release.
There it is. It's the dopamine release. Addiction
to this being all righteously indignant. I've
got a right to be angry about this. People live
in that space and yet God has called us to peace.
He's called us to sow peace. He even says, bring
your peace and give your peace wherever you go.
And so what should surround our lives is not
chaos, not living spun up, not living afraid,
you know, chicken little, the sky's falling,
the sky's falling. But there should be something,
it's called the peace of God, that passes all
understanding. That supersedes everything. Reasoning,
even what you see with your eyes. If I spend
five minutes on social media looking at a news
feed, it immediately, I can feel the triggers.
And so I've just quit doing it. Annette's having
to keep me informed on what's going on. I wake
up in the morning, I go, has there been another
9 -1 -1? No, okay, I'm going to go about my business.
Now I want to be informed, but rightly informed.
Let's take it one step further. And he may have
said this later on or in the second service,
which I did not hear. But the point is, in Fredericksburg,
in Bridge Church, we can dominate city council,
mayor, school board, probably parts of the Gillespie
County administrative unit. And this is, again,
this comes back to how we fell down on the job.
But when he made this kind of altar call, I think
10, 15 people showed up and said, yeah, I feel
called to run for something. Both services. Yes.
Over 20 people. Beautiful. And so these people
need to be supported, need to be helped. We need
to organize. I'm going to be having a conversation
with Matt Long about this very thing. He wants
to coach people in this. Yes. So I'm going to
talk to him. We're going to get a little brainstorm
going about what's the best way to do that. We
want to hold a seminar, call it a work, you know,
just a working class. What do we want to do to
create a space for that? so that he can share
the things he knows and what he's learned about
being involved in politics for years. And then
we've got others, we have another who stepped
forward, now I'll keep his name out of the hat
yet, who's already been in office, now has called
to run for a higher office. And he's already
got that experience as well. So we can get this
think tank going of people that have this...
I don't know what I'm supposed to run for, but
I think I'm supposed to do something. Well, let's
come meet. Let's come talk about it. Let's have
a conversation about that and let's see what
percolates. Is this, can we do something with
this like a separate podcast or a broadcast of
this? Or, I mean, I'd love to have whoever's
going to run for anything we need to get behind
them. We need to start putting their message
out. I mean, I'll produce whatever we need to
do. Bring them on as a guest. We can have a spot
in our show where we bring them in. Perfect.
We don't have to dominate the whole podcast,
but we can have them in. Do we have budget for
a third microphone? Do we have that? He's got
a third mic. Now we just need three headphones.
And a fourth. Well, let's do that. We have the
round table right here with people. Let's do
that. And actually let them share in real time
what they're experiencing. Were you afraid to
say yes to God? Let's just talk about that, because
that's a big fear that people have. The biggest
fear we have is we won't know what to do when
we get there. That's the biggest fear. And I'm
going to look foolish. I'm going to look like
an idiot. But everyone who's ever stepped into
office, other than the oligarchs who were raised
in it, but the people, the real people that are
moving the needle in the culture, went in, we've
talked about this, because of probably pain,
probably something happened, a trauma, something,
an event. And they too were just as scared to
step forward. But something compelled them to
make a difference and make a change. This is
where I want to go next. This is about your calling.
And I'm trying to navigate this myself. Here
I am, 61, still navigating this. And why am I
navigating it? Because some wonderful person
from my past, long time ago, she actually used
to work at production desk when I was 19 in Holland
at the television and radio station. She sent
me some Dutch licorice because I saw her at this
big reunion and you know she's 10 years old and
I am she's wheeling around oxygen tank and it's
like oh how you doing pretending like everything's
the same like holy moly girl I got to pray over
you and so she sent me all kinds of stuff and
some book and he sent me this magazine which
is still priced in Gilders if you can believe
it so you know the euro has been around for a
long time brother so this is an old magazine.
and it has a picture of me on the cover as a
very young, innocent -looking 19 -year -old and
inside of me at the radio station. Is that the
picture? That's the black and white picture.
Yeah, that's cool. I saw that yesterday. It looks
like I'm inside of NASA 1960s. Everything's gray
with meters and everything's very sterile, kind
of odd looking. And I said to Tina, I said, take
this picture of me behind my rig right now. And
you look at these two pictures, And of course,
the chin is a little more saggy and the equipment
is much more modern. But I look at that and I'm
like, this is what I am. This is who I have always
been. This has somehow, this communication, doing
this radio podcasting, that has been my calling
and I've come back to it. I've never really stopped
doing it. I've had some different... went into
corporate life, and then came right after corporate
life, God was like, no, I think you got to get
back into this here, invent podcasting, boom.
And here we are, and now 61 is still doing this.
And so I think it was on our walking with Jesus
discipleship, I'm trying to think now, it was
about getting right with God, and I just jot
stuff down, so I'm not quite sure where I got
all of this from. And then I came across 1 John
5, 14 to 15. This is the ESV. And this is the
confidence that we have toward Him, that if we
ask anything according to His will, He hears
us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever
we ask, we know that we have the request that
we have asked of Him. And what I take away from
this is getting... So people are always like,
if I pray to... The Bible says if I pray to God,
then whatever I ask for will come to me. And
this is me stating what I think I've learned
and kind of at the same time saying, Pastor,
what do you think about this? The way I'm reading
it now is that if I have found what God wants
me to be, then naturally the things that I will
want will be the things that He wants and then
they will happen. Is that an interpretation that
makes sense? That's spot on. It's an identity
thing. You're understanding who you are. I've
said this for years. I think I actually, this
may be the one original thing I've ever said
that I didn't steal from somebody else and then
claim it after I said it five times. But I've
always said, and I literally continue to say
it, when you know who you are, you'll know what
to do. So when you know who you are in Christ,
things come. It's like you're not forcing it.
You're not having to guess. You're not out there
test driving 15 different things and go, Oh,
this one feels the best. Right. You just know
there's, there's a knowing that happens when
you know him, when you know who you are in him,
you will know what to do. Yes. And it's interesting.
Henry black could be back in 1979, 1980 came
out. No, I'm sorry. 89 or 90. came out with a
book and then a workbook called Experiencing
God. The premise of that book, and this is a
line that he repeats over and over, is look to
see where God is working. When you recognize
his activity, that is his invitation for you
to join him in his work. How simple is that?
You recognize, whoa, this is God. I see grace
on this. I see God moving, working. That's now
his invitation to you to join him in that work.
So apply that same verse, apply that premise
to what you're doing. It's like the runner. I
can't remember from Chariots of Fire. The runner.
Yeah. Do we need to break into a prayer here?
He's had a moment like, Lord, help us remember.
It'll come to me in a minute. But I remember
him saying, I feel God. when I run. I feel the
pleasure of God when I run. It's the same way.
When you sit down in a chair with a mic and a
headset on, you're there. Strangely enough, me
too, I love this because I love speaking. And
not because I think I've got the greatest things
to say, it's because I trust that God can say
things through us to anyone who's yielded to
Him. Bringing this back to when those people
stood up in the first and second service, if
you really felt it, hear this conversation, then
that may be the thing that God has called you
to do. 1 Corinthians 7, 17. I did homework. Come
on. Only let each person lead the life the Lord
has assigned to him and to which God has called
him." Yes, I love that. And I see that and I'm
like, boom, my head explodes. Funny because Annette
gave me that verse on Monday morning. I used
it for the DG. on Monday. And that's probably
why I wrote it down, brother. I just jumped off
it. I don't know where I collect this stuff.
It's exactly that verse because… Read it again.
Read it again. That is so good. It is from the
Daily Grind. You're right. I wrote it down. Read
it again. That is so good. 1 Corinthians 7, 17.
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord
has assigned to him and to which God has called
him. Oh, assignment and calling. Yes. Wow. It
doesn't get any clearer than that. Do you happen
to have the whole daily grind on your computer?
I do. That would be from Monday. Yes. In fact,
I have it even in my system. Here's the title
I wrote, My Purpose. This is my outline system.
I put down that daily grind, just the verse,
and then the other things that I talked about
earlier. What was the whole daily grind? All
right. So, it's this. It's called, Know Your
Assignment. And it's very short. This one is
a short one. God has called, anointed, and empowered
you to live the life He has designed for you.
The details unfold as you walk with Him in step,
moment by moment. It's not complicated. Know
Him, and you will know your purpose. When you
know who you are in Him, you will know what to
do. Look for what God is doing throughout this
day. and join him in his work. This is Pastor
Jimmy Pruitt. Have an amazing day on purpose.
So yeah, there's the DG for the day, right? So
autopilot now. But there's so many little points
in there that I've taken what I've walked with
for 40 plus years and threw them into about five
sentences there. And it's this, know him and
you will know your purpose. Yes. Everybody's
asking that, what is God's will for my life?
And I was just about to say, this is the hardest,
I'm sure that lots of people listening are like,
well, that's easy for you guys to say, you've
been doing this for 40 years. How does anyone
find their purpose, what God wants them to do?
How do you find it? So very simply, you start
with what the Bible tells us to do. that's his
purpose for our life. He gave it to us in black
and white and red, if you get the red letter
edition. So we've got that already, and he's
very clear in Scripture. He even says, this is
the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. I mean,
over and over, he gives us all these—they're
not even Easter eggs. They're there in plain
English. You start there with the written Word
of God, the revealed Word of God. But then, and
that's called the halagos, that's the written
word, right? But then there's the rhema word
of God, that's the God -breathed word. That's
the word that's not written down on paper. It's
the one he speaks to your heart. But you will
only know that by knowing him. So this is a,
that goes back to James 4a, draw near to God.
and He will draw near to you. What a promise.
I love those simple short one -liners because
I can remember them, for one. But also, it's
so clear. If I will make the effort to initiate
movement toward God, He will bring movement back
to me. He will reciprocate. It's a promise. So
I trust that as I'm drawing near to Him, whatever
that means, it may just mean reading my Bible
every morning. You know, it may be in the screen,
you know, Scripture before screens. It may mean
during the day I put down my screens and pick
up my Bible, but I'm spending time in God's Word,
therefore I'm getting to know Him. I'm learning
about His character, His movement, His way, His
will, the way He moves. So that's the first piece.
Yeah, but Pastor Jimmy, I read my You version
every single morning. I don't feel it yet. First
of all, it's good that someone does that. I want
people to do that and you need to check your
box to feel better. That's fine. That's great.
But there's a difference between reading the
Word and being still with God's Word and letting
it read you. And so you have to spend time with
it. And that time doesn't mean you're reading
copious amounts of it. Frankly, if I read a whole,
when I do the read through the Bible thing, that
is a struggle for me. because I want to go in
the weeds on everything. It's like binging House
of David. You're like, are we still in Samuel?
This is too much for me. Which by the way, I'm
loving that show. It's good. Oh my gosh. I'll
easily go down the rabbit hole on that. How much
I love that. But back to knowing his will, knowing
his way, but you got to know him to know your
purpose. And that means Spending time with him
daily and it doesn't mean reading copious amounts
of scripture. It may mean reading one verse and
Taking that verse throwing it you speak into
screens throw it on your notepad on your notes
on your phone So that any time through the day
you just pull it up Sitting at a red light pull
it up. Oh, there it is You know, we it used to
be we'd write it down on a note card, right and
have it have it in strategic places Well now
we've got something to use it for good, to use
it for something that's life -giving, use your
notepad on your phone and put that scripture
on there. This is a really good point. And you
can see what happened. And I have a lot of checkboxes
like, I want to read this one, I want to read
that one. Yeah, that's great. But these jumped
out at me. I jotted them down. And as I was preparing
for today's show, I'm just, it just... all kind
of came together like, oh, yes, this makes so
much sense. And what I find increasingly is that
if you open up your Bible or your Bible app and
it opens to something and you're like, huh, that's
not by accident. Sit on it. Just stay there.
I mean, I was looking for something in Romans
12 .2 and by accident, quotation marks went to
Romans 2 and that and I'm like, whoa This has
in fact, where's my I? Actually, I highlighted
it because I can't remember what it was. I got
to come back to this. These these are the things
that's great Well, so I was going for Romans
12 to don't conform to the to the ways of the
world which is man if anything do we in fact
this is the nlt version i don't like it as much
don't copy the behavior and the custom of this
world i like the last part of this yeah better
yes but let god transform you into a new person
by changing the way you think brilliant then
you will learn to know god's will for you which
is good and pleasing and perfect now let me go
to what i was actually looking for was roman's
212 and this is My point being that nothing is
by accident. Nothing is by accident. And I think
here it was, well, I guess I didn't mark it up.
I was going to say 12 is pretty intense. Yeah.
There was something about 212 that popped out
at me. Anyway, I marked up, maybe it was the
other way around. I came up with 12 instead of
two, and that just fit in so perfectly for me.
And exactly today, this very day. Don't copy
what everyone else is doing. Don't copy the outrage
about Mamdani and Islam is going to take over.
But let God transform you into a new person by
changing the way you think. Hello. Hello. Then
you will learn to know God's will for you, which
is good and pleasing and perfect. And so, if
anyone stood up and and felt a calling, you know,
please reach out, let's get, let's make sure
this happens. We can conform our little town
here to a Christian way of thinking and life.
We're not even that far from it actually. We
have a lot of groups like, rawr, rawr, rawr's
no good, rawr's get angry. And these are groups
that can't even endorse a candidate by their
own charter. Like you're basically just a protest
group. No. we can endorse people, we can give
people a platform, give people a microphone,
even if it amplifies it to 10 people. Let's do
this because we get to do this and we can make
Fredericksburg great again. Come on, brother.
Come on. I'm just trying to do the acronym. It
doesn't work, but it sounds good. You just have
to say it out loud. You're so on point here.
It's actually interesting because I just read
something from a New Zealand pastor. He's with
Life Church New Zealand. He pastored his own
church for 20 years. Now he's doing some things
where he's just writing out some things he learned
in those 20 years of being a lead pastor. Now
he's an associate pastor, so he's got this margin
to actually help others. He said this, he said,
One of our missing pieces in discipleship, and
you'll recognize this because me and Pastor Brian
have been saying this for years, is that we do
not see the world through a biblical worldview.
But he took it one step further that I haven't.
And he defined that, a part of that, as learning
to think like Jesus. That if we're going to actually
make disciples, we're not going for behavior
modification. That doesn't last. That's motivation
and doesn't last. We're looking for inspiration.
which is of the spirit and last, lasting heart
change. And he said, the only way we can do that,
A, biblical worldview, subcategory, we have to
teach people to think like Jesus, which reminded
me of the walking with Jesus discipleship journey.
It's the whole point. And for those of you listening
today on Wednesday, Tony Evans, You can get them
in the Godcast app just under program search
for Tony Evans. It's a classic from him. He was
talking about this very thing. There's no coincidence
in the kingdom. He was talking about this very
thing, thinking like Jesus. What does following
mean? And this goes back to, are we ever going
to put these WWDJs out as a package or something?
Because I understand that you really need to
be there with the workbook. to get it, but man,
just to listen to it again, it's so powerful.
I mean, I don't know why we couldn't. There's
no law on this. It's our decision whether we
want to package these and put them into the Godcaster
as a category. We can do that. We can do it as
a channel. We're actually going to write a new
lesson in block three about biblical worldview
and culture and how to confront culture and engage.
the term biblical worldview is something that
is not like a stop word, like, oh, we've got
a biblical worldview on this show. Right. And
I wonder if people actually even thinking about
what that means anymore. So distill it down to
thinking like Jesus. I mean, that's really where
it is. Now, how do you get to, how do you, so
for example, you and Tina have been together
long enough and have been together long enough
that we can sometimes complete each other's sentences.
Sure. And they often do. There's your Easter
egg, girls. The Easter eggs are getting picked
up. I got called out. I got called out. I heard
that. So, but that's a gift too. I mean, because
they actually know what we become one. The scripture
even says we become one. Why? Because we spend
time together. We do life together. We are together.
And I spend time with my wife, not because I
want to get to know her. I spend time with her
because I know her. Think about this for a second.
Yes, the reason I want to spend time with God
is not to get to know him It's because I know
you know him, you know when you love someone
you want to get time with them Period you just
want to be in their orbit. You want to be in
there there it is and you want to be around them
and so What I found as a young Christian who
knew zero when I came to God Zero, I didn't know
I didn't even know the code language Christian
ease. Mm -hmm Even in a church service, I was
constantly confused because they had all these
code words, especially in the Baptist church.
They have their own language, their own culture.
And I'm like, do I sit down here? Do I stand
up? Just, okay, just watch everybody else do
what they do. I never knew what I was doing for
the first year. I had to learn all that. But
because when I gave my life to Jesus, something
transformed in my heart and I wanted to know
Him better. But also, as I got to know him, I
wanted to be with him more. So it's a twofold.
I want to get to know him initially because I
don't, therefore I want to spend time with him.
But then as I get to know him, the reason changes
of why I want to spend time with him, because
I do know him. Does that make sense? It does
to me. Therefore, I can't put the word of God
down. It does to me, I'm sure many people are
feeling like, because Tina and I have only been
saved for three years. So in the beginning, I
didn't quite have that. And it's been dawning
on me for the past year and a half, two years.
It's slowly coming into view. I pray for everyone
to have that feeling. I'm sure there are people
listening to us right now who are saying, I'm
not sure I have that feeling. Which is understandable.
There comes a point where you have to step over
a line of surrender. You have to surrender your
life to His. This is the big sticking piece.
We talked about this about Joe Rogan. That's
where his sticking point is right now. He's not
ready to surrender. Self -made man. We're all
that way at some level. You know, we're afraid
if we surrender, will we be okay? I saw Eddie
Murphy in the 90s on the Arsenio Hall show. Oh,
wow. You just took me way back. Yeah. Woof, woof,
woof. He's in the house. I mean, all of this
comes from the Arsenio Hall show. Right. Who
I always found to be a very delightful guy. He
was good. I always liked him. And I don't recall
ever meeting Eddie Murphy. Um, but Eddie Murphy,
and he's doing, he's doing his whole thing. He's,
he's great. He's cutting up. He's hilarious.
And then, and this must've been, what was the
90s? So, um, I forget who was running. Maybe
Clinton was president. Bill Clinton was president
at the time. And, and Arsenio says, so, uh, so
you'll be voting this week. And Eddie Murphy
goes, no. And, and I see what, and Arsenio's
flabbergasted. And Eddie Murphy, I'm not that
I'm saying what he said was right, but it always
stuck with me. His conviction, he said, oh, no,
no, God's got this figured out. It doesn't matter
whether I vote or not. Now, I'm not saying that's
true, but his conviction that God has a plan.
I'm in my lane, brother. This is what I'm supposed
to do. I'm supposed to entertain people. Sometimes
I slip a little something in, like trading places.
There's always a little message in his movies
that may not be apparent. And it always stuck
with me. there's a guy who's convicted so far
that he doesn't even, he knows, he knows that
for whatever reason, his vote doesn't matter.
And God's already got this all figured out and
whoever's supposed to come is supposed to come.
Not saying that's the right thing, but the conviction
always stuck with me. Like, wow, if you can really
believe that. And so when things happen in my
life, I and now starting to default to, well,
that's God's will. So is it something He wants
me to do? Or am I viewing something incorrectly?
And I feel like more and more it'll take me for
the rest of my life on this Earth. More and more
I feel like I'm getting right with Him because
I feel Him pushing me, no, no, no, back on the
center line, over here. No, don't even think
about that. And it just becomes like second nature
almost. Does that make sense? Absolutely. As
we get to know His will, as we get to do what
you're doing, you're discovering things, we do
get those nudges. We get those god taps. Yes.
Where it's like, no, no, no, no, over here. No,
no, no, no, over here. And over time, I think
the longer we walk with Him, that gets more clear.
almost where you're not even thinking consciously
about it, obviously you are cognitively, but
consciously, and to where you are entering into
His Steps. There's a great book written in the
early 1900s called In His Steps by Sheldon was
the last name. That's where the WWJD movement
came from in the 80s. Somebody rediscovered that
book. It's a great story about a pastor teaching
his church and his church was not doing well,
the little town wasn't doing well, and he just
got this idea, well, what would Jesus do? Well,
he turned into a Sunday night sermon and he did
something. He said, anybody who wants to hear
more about this idea of what would Jesus do,
and you would be willing to sell your life out
to that, to start doing what you think Jesus
would do, I want you to come meet me in the...
Fellowship Hall after church. The place was packed.
People were like, tell us more about this. Well,
the book follows these stories. The shop owner,
the lady who cuts hair, the guy who picks up
your trash. What's this called again? It's called
In His Steps by Sheldon is the last name. Classic
book, great read, easy read, short read. But
that principle, what would Jesus do? is what
comes alive. We're going very, very circular
on this. We're actually staying on the same topic.
We're just coming at it from different, kind
of like my sermons. One sermon, 7 ,000 ways to
say it, but it's all the same. It comes back
to thinking like Jesus. What would Jesus do here?
And it's interesting because back in the 80s,
that got very popular for a season. Bracelets,
t -shirts, everything, yeah. And I still see
those bracelets every once in a while. I see
them in a celebrity or something. I go, oh, football
players wearing what would Jesus do? Bracelet,
you know? And I think we need to bring it back.
Well, it's interesting because people throw that
in my face, you know, like, oh, what would Jesus
do? You know, when they disagree with me on something
on social media. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's like, oh, I'll pray
for you. Yeah. The person who, if you were actually
in a real conversation, would never say that
out loud. So how can you check yourself when
you think this is what Jesus would do? Obviously,
that's like such an attack vector for the enemy.
It is. How do you protect yourself? Well, actually,
the Bible says that we walk by faith and not
by sight. And so you're in a relationship with
Him. You're in His steps, to use that. You're
thinking, trying to think like He does, what
would Jesus do? And then whatever that comes,
you just have to take a step. This is where you
step out in faith. This is where you take a step,
by the way, experiencing God talks about that
step of faith. You have to step out on it. And
you use the, I love that, the Indiana Jones moment,
stepping out, the bridge appears, but only as
he stepped out and his perspective changed, could
he actually see it. I've always loved that. But
it's the same thing. We have to, sooner or later,
we're going to have to walk by faith and not
by sight. And you won't always know, but you
trust. There's the difference. And that's what
Eddie Murphy said. He's saying, guys, I got this.
Now, I disagree with his premise about not voting
or not getting involved. I mean, we are his hands
and feet and we interact and we co -operate with
God. We co -labor with God. So we're involved
in the process. But I like what you were saying,
what you pulled out of that. It was typical Eddie
Murphy shock value, I think, to get people to
think. Yeah. It was good. It's amazing what's
popping up. Someone sent me a clip yesterday
of David Bowie in a concert, must have been 80s,
kneeling down on stage and saying the Lord's
Prayer, King James Version. Wow. I never... knew
that. I never knew that. You can tell when someone
has recited the Lord's Prayer many, many times
and it just flows out. And they say, God bless
you all. And the place goes crazy. Wow. What
a cool clip. Yeah. I'll have to send it to you
if I can find it again amidst all the muck and
the mire. When I think of David Bowie, I think
back with him doing that Christmas show. Oh,
the little drummer boy and everything. Amazing.
Well, that just goes to show. Another side of
him. Yes. I do miss him. I know. He predicted
the craziness of the internet that we have today.
around the same time I was getting into it. Really?
He saw that train coming. He said, we don't know
what this is. It could be a space alien from
Mars. This thing is going to be amazing. It's
going to change everything about life. And I'm
sad he didn't get to witness everything that
we're going through, because he would have been
a fun voice. Crowd control to Major Tom. That
was a little earlier, I think. I'm not sure how
into the Lord he was at the time. This is the
only podcast, my brother. that will bump Tucker
Carlson twice. Because I had those clips again,
and I'm just like, just going to move them to
the next show. It's okay. This is how good it
is. Speaking of Tucker, we don't have to go down
the rabbit hole, but you know, I know there's
a lot of Christians that are pretty enraged at
him because he's kind of sided with Candice supposedly
on Israel. You know, a lot of people upset about
that. So PB and I, Pastor Brian, we've decided
we're going to do a podcast format sermon. on
Israel. Why Israel? We need to talk about it
straight up. Excellent. Out of the Bible. Excellent.
This isn't going to be opinions, it's going to
be the Word of God. That is good. We need that.
We'll go back and forth. Because that's the collateral
damage of what's going on. Exactly. What's happening
is there is, and I could tell you all the groups
or forces that I think are making this happen.
But ultimately, it is the enemy. It's the oldest
one in the book, divide and conquer. This is
about who comes after President Trump. That's
all that this is about. Who is the next President
Trump? Because people are like, well, MAGA was
this and MAGA, no, MAGA is one, is Trump. Without
Trump, no MAGA. I mean, that's just the fact
of it. And so this is an early fight. And in
my mind, hey, why not abuse the Jews for it and
Israel? They're easy to use. And it is being
used to drive a wedge primarily online without
even, I don't think Tucker or Candice or Nick
Fuentes or anybody really even knows. In fact,
the more I hear Tucker talk about his faith,
the more I think, brother, you've got a ways
to go. And I pray for him in that regard, because
he's like, I got it all figured out. I'm a Christian.
OK, no, maybe not. That is all that this is about.
So to have an actual straight up, this is about
Israel, yeah, we need that desperately. It's
become such a whirlpool of doo -doo. Oh my gosh.
I mean, I love Eric Metaxas. I love them all.
They're all jumping on board and they're all
yelling. You are falling for the devil's tricks,
my brothers. You're falling for his tricks. This
is the whole point. Stay out of it. Eventually,
right now, the audiences are going, yeah, this
is great. America first. Where I'm like, okay,
so the amount of money America gives to Israel
is too weak of snap benefits. What is wrong with
this picture? Why are you yelling about that
while this is happening over here? And by the
way, go to Fredericksburg Food Pranty. I went
the other day to give them free support because
And I saw the look on, her name is Janice. She
runs the place. And it came at two o 'clock,
they open at one o 'clock. She was like staggering.
She says, ah, the rush is over. It was crazy.
It was crazy today. My point being, what are
you arguing about? If you want to defend Israel,
thank you to you and Pastor Brian. and one of
the five Brian's. This is what we need. Not jumping
in and, because you know what this is? It's pride.
It's now I'm in the fight. And literally, Dave
Smith, you know, look at the numbers, Candice's
numbers, Tucker's numbers, everyone's numbers.
This is not what God cares about, and you're
going to get this little bump. People are going
to grow tired of it, and then what? Then you're
only going to have to get more extreme or whatever
it is to be stayed away from. And there it is.
You just nailed it. We've always got to one -up.
I remember as a young pastor getting into, we
were doing, just back in the 90s, we were using
lots of props and stuff. And it got crazier and
crazier to the point where I finally flew a remote
-controlled helicopter. Through the worship center,
I hit a plastic golf ball, teed a golf ball up
with a turf thing. Okay, I got to tell the story
real quick. This is great. So I teed up a ball
because I brought a motorcycle into the worship
center. Was this a thing? Was this like a trend
at the time? It was a thing. It was trendy. I
love it. And so I had this idea, talking about
teeing up a golf ball and how to hit a golf shot,
and I compared it to biblical discipleship and
stuff. Nice. There was a girl sitting on the
front row. And I made a big target on the back
wall of the worship center, like a big target.
People walk in and go, what's this target? Well,
I was telling everybody, I'm going to hit this
golf ball and I'm going to hit it right in the
middle of the target. So everybody's getting
nervous because they think it's a real golf ball,
but it's one of those exploding golf balls. That
explodes when you hit it? Yeah, when you hit
it, just big power thing. Well, this is one of
those things about props. You should always test
them before you use them. I line up like I'm
going to hit it and I fake swing a couple of
times. People are ducking and stuff. I think
it's a real golf ball. This girl sitting on the
front row, she's military. She's Dias Air Force
Base and she's kind of like, whatever, you know,
she's like laughing about it. I cranked that
ball. I smashed it. I didn't calculate for the
plastic shell around the golf ball. Which hit
her right in the forehead. No, right in the chest.
I mean like, boom. And you could hear the slap
when it hit her skin. I mean, it was like...
It left a mark. Painful passer moments. All that
to say is, you know... Every week we were one
-upping ourselves. Another time I had a guy ride
a Kawasaki Ninja into the worship center with
Kickstart Your Heart by Motley Crue playing.
This is when this is starting to get out of hand
in the 90s, right? It was like everything is
bigger more. What we didn't account for, again,
was the carbon monoxide. Yeah. People are like,
oh, I don't feel so good. Well, I mean, he was
a racing motorcycle. He was racing. Ring, ring,
ring. Oh, it was loud, but it also blew out blue
smoke. We had to open the doors in the workshop.
Oh, goodness, brother. Anyway, I could tell stories
all day long on the stupid stuff we did. These
are good, by the way, stories I haven't heard.
Dumb things we did to try to get people's attention.
I love that. But all that to say, I see that
in podcast land right now. Yeah. what's trending,
what's going to get the most likes, comments,
ultimately drive people to your sponsors so you
can keep your job. And by the way, it's always
the same sponsors who are sponsoring all these
podcasts. Just keep an eye on The Wellness Company.
These are all interesting little advertisers
that pop up on these things. And now everybody's
on each other's podcast. So this is incestuous
and it will end because I've seen this happen
time and again. Right now, it's fun. Everyone's
picking sides. I naturally go against the popular
way. That's just who I am. Thank you, Lord. That's
who He made me. And usually, five years later,
people go, you were right. You had the right
idea. So I'm just seeing this. I'm like, just
to our listeners, just... Let it go. Because
it's going to get a little wackier, a little
crazier. Someone might get hurt. That's possible.
That's the sad part. And even, again, to pastors
and faith -based broadcasters who I respect,
I see them getting wrapped up in it. I'm like,
don't. I see my friends getting caught up in
it. And I'm like, man, they're taking the bait.
Yes. It's like the title of that book by John
Bevere, The Bait of Satan. They're just taking
it. They're hooked. Hey, as we kind of land the
plane, I want to take a moment just to thank
the people that are actually listening to our
podcast. Do you have any names? I don't specific.
I mean, we've got people who've reached out to
us, said some nice things. I'm seeing about 1
,500 at this point. It's beautiful. I just want
to say that, hey, we are appreciative. of you
being there, of you giving us time. And sending
a word back to us. Oh, that's so helpful. We
really love that. Super helpful. We've gotten
some beautiful notes from people. We have. And
just like, wow, just the fact that you listened,
you got something out of it and sent that back
is encouraging. That means everything. And I
just wanted to take a moment to say thanks to
our listeners. Thank you. And feel free, pass
it along if you think this is going to be encouraging
for somebody. Maybe inspirational, even motivational,
we'll take it. But send it out to your friends
and get the word out that there's this new podcast,
number nine today. Number nine? Are we eight?
I'm so confused. Oh, number nine. Yes, number
nine. It's number nine, right? Hey, guess what?
Next week, number 10. Come on. That's a milestone,
brother. Brother, we get to do this. I love doing
it with you. All right. You have an awesome week,
brother. You too, brother.